I have successfully created a few wikis with this in the past (on 15-12-2011 to be exact), but now this seems impossible. All I get is this error:
[[!format txt """ root@marcos:~# env LANG=C ikisite --verbose create rococo.anarcat.ath.cx --admin https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat useradd a-rococo --create-home --skel /dev/null git config --global user.name admin fatal: failed to stat '.': Permission denied error: git failed """]]
Ah - it turns out that you can't run this command from a private directory (like
/root
) as ikiwiki callsgit config --global user.name admin
without changing directory first.git
, in turn, does astat(".")
for some obscure reason, and fails miserably:[pid 597] getcwd("/root", 4096) = 6 [pid 597] stat(".", 0x7fffdc602e60) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [pid 597] write(2, "fatal: failed to stat '.': Permi"..., 45fatal: failed to stat '.': Permission denied ) = 45
A simple workaround:
cd /tmp
before running the command.So this should be fairly simple to fix: just change the directory first. It's is probably safe to
chdir($HOME)
anyways... --anarcat